Husam Muhammad Amin al-Yasin

Husam Muhammad Amin al-Yasin was the Head of the National Monitoring Directorate of Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Husam Muhammad Amin al-Yasin served in the Iraqi Army as an engineer and helped in developing missile defense systems, and he was later made the head of the National Monitoring Directorate by Saddam Hussein. al-Yasin denied Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, and the United States wanted to get him to defect and inform them about the WMD program as well as on Saddam's inner circle. On 26 April 2003, al-Yasin was arrested by the USA during the Iraq War, and he was released on 23 December 2005.